Word: ernest
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Minnesota's renomination of blind Republican Senator Thomas David Schall, instead of a nomination for Governor Theodore Christiansen, terminated a campaign almost without issues. Senator Schall will face Einar Hoidale, unopposed Democrat, and Ernest Lundeen, Farm Laborite, in the elections, unless Minnesota Democrats get Lundeen to withdraw, uniting the minority parties...
Birthday. Daniel Carter (Dan) Beard, illustrator, author (Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance ; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles; Do It Yourself); "oldest Boy Scout," co-founder of Boy Scouts of America with Ernest Thompson Seton and Lt. -General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace...
...walks with Ernest in the streets in Saragossa...
...Massachusetts bar, but some years ago renounced the law for poetry, which he writes intermittently on his farm in Conway, Mass. FORTUNE employs him on its editorial staff. He has lived much in Europe, is a great friend of Poet Stephen Vincent Benét (John Brown's Body), and Ernest Hemingway. But, vigorous, busy, disciplined, he does not fit the expatriate scene. Other books: The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, Streets in the Moon, The Pot of Earth...
President Louis Bertram Hopkins of Wabash College, brother of President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth LL.D...